The Skateboarding Field Manual

Author: Ryan Stutt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554074679
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of American Library Association award: Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2010 An illustrated guide to skateboarding skills and techniques. Skateboarding is more than a sport; it is a passion and way of life driven by those who love to push the limits of gravity and inertia while bending the notions of social acceptability. The Skateboarding Field Manual addresses both the intricacies of the sport and the intangibles of its culture. Skateboard enthusiast and journalist Ryan Stutt provides outstanding advice, which ranges from how to stand on your board and how to fall without causing injuries to how to perform grinds, slides and flips. This comprehensive reference is simply the very best manual on the sport of skateboarding. There are 33 maneuvers and tricks for beginners to intermediates, all illustrated with over 350 custom color photographs by skateboarding photographer Harry Gils. Other features include: A 12-page primer on skate culture, including history, deck art, skateboarding in the media and the importance of homemade skate videos and photos. A beginner's guide to parts, safety equipment and skatepark etiquette. Instructions on the basic techniques of pushing, turning, dropping-in, ollies and nollies. Advice on flips, grinds and slides for rails, ramps and ledges, including the varial flip, the nose grind and the board slide. The Skateboarding Field Manual is the essential guide for anyone looking to master the art of skateboarding and to understand its unique culture.

Skateboarding

Author: Steve Badillo
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
ISBN: 1884654193
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.

Skater Girl

Author: Patty Segovia
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 1569755426
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Colorful introduction to skateboarding for girls.

Mastering Skateboarding

Author: Per Welinder
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492582670
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
Ever watched pro skaters and wished you knew how they were able to pull off the tricks that you see? If so, then MasteringSkateboarding is the resource for you! Two-time world champion skateboarder Per Welinder teams up with longtime skateboard advocate Peter Whitley to bring you the techniques and tricks used by the pros. But the information doesn’t stop there. Welinder and Whitley also provide in-depth coverage of skateboarding equipment, including how to select the components that work best for you and how to build and tune a board that fits your individual riding style. Packed with 88 tricks, this full-color guide is the only resource you’ll ever need to pull off the moves you’ve dreamed of performing. Whether you ride street or vert, competitive or recreational, Mastering Skateboarding has you covered. Add this one-of-a-kind resource to your collection and you’ll soon be ready to put your new skills on display!

Skateboard Tricks

Author: Jack Boyd
Publisher: Spotlight Media
ISBN: 9781951806477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Skateboarding Tricks: Step By Step Instructions & Videos To Help You Land Your Next Trick! Do you like riding your skateboard? Have you tried doing some tricks, but no matter how hard you try, you always fail? If you want to learn dozens of incredible skateboard tricks, then this book will show you the easiest way to do so. From flip tricks and grab tricks, to air tricks and slide tricks - learning all of them will be a piece of cake. The only thing you will have to do after that is to impress your friends with your new skills. This book of skateboarding tricks for kids ages 8-12 is perfect for every kid that dreams of becoming the next Tony Hawk - who knows, maybe you will even surpass him. Are you that kid? With this book, you will learn dozens of old school and modern tricks with an accent on originality and creativity - but in the end, the most important thing is, you will have lots of fun. This instructional skateboarding guide contains step-by-step instructions and explanatory shots of every move you need to make to re-create all of these skateboarding tricks successfully. Here is what this guide to skateboarding for kids can offer you: Step-by-step instructions and explanatory shots of basic and advanced skateboarding tricks Guides to easily learn awesome flip tricks and grab tricks Guides to quickly learn incredible air tricks, slide tricks, and ramp tricks Few guidelines on skateboard safety Lots of fun and excitement And much more! If you want to quickly and easily learn dozens of skateboarding tricks and impress your friends with them, all you have to do is follow the step-by-step instructions found in this skateboarding guide for kids. It's that easy. Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now!

Impossible

Author: Cole Louison
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762768002
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. He does solargely by recounting the careers of the sport’s Yoda—Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding tricks—and its Luke Skywalker—Ryan Sheckler, who became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It then follows the sport’s spikes, plateaus, and drops—including its billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art, fashion, and music. In The Impossible, we come to know intimately not only skateboarding, but also two very different, equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than anyone else.

The Mutt

Author: Rodney Mullen
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060556188
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
At age six, Rodney Mullen was the family misfit who had to wear braces to straighten out his pigeon-toed feet. But by age fourteen, he was a world-champion skateboarder -- and for the next decade lost only one contest. Now, for the first time, Rodney tells the incredible story of his ascent to fame as the number one nerd in a sport where anarchy is often encouraged. Rodney learned to skate by himself on the family farm, his only company the wandering cows. As a teenager he traveled the world for demonstrations, invented the flatground ollie -- a trick that laid the foundation for modern street skating -- and in ten years garnered thirty-five world skating titles. While acing skateboard contests Rodney also earned straight A's in school, but his father forced him to abandon his fame and the fortune he could make from the sport he loved. Rodney was unable to stop for very long though, even after freestyle skating went out of fashion and the skateboarding world abandoned him. He adapted to street skating and eventually became one of the most innovative and influential skaters of all time. It's all here: everything from his eating and sleeping disorders to his comical experiences with loan sharks, occult-obsessed relatives, and the FBI. The Mutt is a look at Rodney's strange journey from penniless skateboarder to millionaire.

Skateboarding

Author: Paul Mason
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429654988
Category : Skateboarding
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
Introduces skateboarding, where to skate, top techniques, types of skateboards, and the secret language of skateboarders.

Skateboarding and the City

Author: Iain Borden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472583477
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.

Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It!

Author: Catharine Bomhold
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598843923
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.